Environmental & Sustainability Project Manager + ITO

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

Whilst reporting to the Regional EHS Manager, lead and manage in the most efficient manner Project & Service team members to provide support on implementing the Environmental & Sustainability Requirements.

• Implement and maintain Environmental & Sustainability Plans, ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory, contractual and the company requirements.
• Liaison with Employers, Statutory Bodies and Contractors.
• Define and monitor actions to improve Environmental & Sustainability Performance in Construction & Commissioning and to reduce likelihood and severity of Environmental events and Site ESG breaches.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Environmental Role

• Management and implementation of all environmental requirements of different projects.
• Provision of required environmental plans.
• Lead and develop environmental strategy for compliance approach with Projects & Service.
• Delivery of program of environmental works, inclusive of, but not limited to, surveys, pre-construction mitigation, monitoring of mitigation, watching briefs, and exclusion periods.
• Provision and delivery of environmental communication and training plan.
• Environmental monitoring and auditing.
• Assist in recruiting of specialized personnel e.g. ecologist, hydrologist, archaeologist, ornithologist, noise specialist.
• Manage all ongoing programs and action plans implemented by the sites for the protection of the environment, including permits for air emissions, hazardous waste management, and wastewater management.
• Ensure full implementation of GE standards and procedures at site (EHS Directives, Work Instructions and Guidelines, EHS Roadmap standard, etc.).
• Monitor fulfilment of Environmental contractual requirements established with the Subcontractors.
• Ensure that all site Environmental events (pollution incidents, near-misses, spills, etc.) are recorded, reported, investigated and analyzed in due time to prevent recurrence.
• Monitor quantity and quality of the site Environmental inspections carried out by the site personnel.
• Define and implement an Environmental Subcontractor audit program to monitor compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory, contractual and the company requirements.
• Monitor fulfilment of EHS contractual requirements established with the Subcontractors.

Sustainability Role

• Be central point of contact for ESG & Sustainability topics, coordinating with relevant functions and responding to stakeholder requests.
• Develop GSI Region Sustainability strategy & vision based on materiality assessment with key stakeholders, and in alignment with wider GE Vernova.
• Support and drive to establish sustainability management plans for GSI projects with the sustainability guidelines, processes & frameworks.
• Represent GSI in GE wide initiatives, programs and goals like Carbon Neutral Operations, Science Based Targets and ESG
• Lead data collection, internal verification, coordination
• Lead/coordinate/support decarbonization and Sustainability efforts in GSI operations and value chain.
• Secure internal GSI stakeholder engagement / alignment / buy into Sustainability initiatives.
• Coordinate deployment of GSI specific Sustainability strategy, track and report progress to key stakeholders.
• Support commercial teams in customer responses for Sustainability information.
• Foster employee engagement and educate and inspire internal and external stakeholders on Sustainability.
• Collation of Sustainability data.
• Recording of Social Value initiatives.

Profile

Skills knowledge and experience require:

• Extensive demonstrated experience in a relevant / transferable role.
• Master’s degree in business management, Sustainability, environmental engineering or other academic field from an accredited college or university discipline
• Experience in GRID industry or in power generation industry.
• Experience in sales & commercial function or strategy / management consulting
• Be fully conversant in Scottish and UK consenting and environmental legislation.
• Good computer skill using MS office (word, excel, power point).
• Membership of a recognized professional body e.g IEMA, CIEEM, CIWEM, SocEnv.
• International EHS regulatory knowledge /qualification as required.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills; integrative team working style, able to work into a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience with and knowledge of independent standards organizations and certification programs such as ISO 14001, ISO 45001, etc.
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional and cross-business teams.
• High proficiency in English (oral & written).
• Ability to make decisions with limited or conflicting data and manage multiple transactions and priorities simultaneously